did us all a favour, i think, by de-mythologizing the suicide of ian curtis. his death, as rendered in the film, wasn't a consequence of profound melancholia. it was mean, dimwitted and shabby. but the myth rolls on. now anton corbijn (who i only knew as the photogragher who took the covershots for "picadilly palare" and "november spawned a monster") has re-mythologized curtis in the film "control". but is there anything to really eulogize—besides the early death and the nazi embellishments?there has been some toing-and-froing in these pages about the lines of demarcation separating "new wave" from "new romantic". well joy division and siouxsie and the banshees are new wave. duran duran and spandau ballet are new romantic. you wouldn't confuse them in a police line-up.
this pix also by anton corbijn.
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